New York: A specialist group of international criminal and human rights lawyers have filed a formal submission with the United States government seeking targeted sanctions against Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath, for his role in extra judicial killings allegedly committed by the state’s police forces
Qaisar Mansoor Religious minorities are facing state-sanctioned violence in BJP-ruled India as the Modi-led fascist Indian government has adopted laws and policies that systematically discriminate against Muslims and other minorities in the country. Hijab ban shows Hindutva policies are directed towards Muslims and soon these policies will
London: Oxfam today called on the UN Security Council to condemn the recent attacks in Yemen and inject new urgency into peace talks to end the seven-year conflict. The call follows airstrikes that have killed and injured hundreds of civilians in the last week and
London: Afghanistan is once again becoming a breeding ground for Islamist terrorists, and British extremists have already attempted to travel there, the head of the UK’s security service MI5 has warned. Ken McCallum said he is concerned about “terrorist infrastructure and networks reconstituting” in Afghanistan, which
The Hague: An international case accusing Myanmar of genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority returns to the United Nations’ highest court on Monday amid questions over whether the country’s military rulers should even be allowed to represent the Southeast Asian nation. Four days of public hearings
Washington: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden have agreed to a summit — to be held only if Moscow does not invade Ukraine, France announced on Monday following a frantic new round of diplomacy to avert an all-out war. Both leaders have
Beijing: Prime Minister Imran Khan’s upcoming official visit to Russia is historic and of great strategic significance, said Cheng Xizhong, visiting professor of Southwest University of Political Science and Law and Senior Fellow of the Charhar Institute. “It is particularly noteworthy that with a gap of
Fatehgarh Sahib: Amandeep Kaur Dholewal rose from a traditional Indian cot and began speaking to a small gathering of men and women who sat cross-legged in a park opposite a white-domed gurdwara, a place of worship for Sikhs. The 37-year-old doctor was flanked by a dozen
New Delhi: Twitter removed an offensive post by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Gujarat unit that featured a cartoon depicting a group of Muslim men being hanged in in the wake of Friday’s court verdict that sentenced 38 people to death in the 2008 Ahmedabad blasts
LAHORE: The Sikh community is all set to observe the Saka Nankana Sahib event from February 19 to 21, for which Pakistan has decided to issue visas to Indian Sikh pilgrims to attend the religious ceremony across the border. The three-day event will be attended by